Sep
12
Coding on Paper
How many of you programmers write your programs in paper anymore? I am playing
with the ideas right now and
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Aaron W. Hsu
I'm an Orthodox Christian; I believe in the beauty of the careful, considered thought. Computing and education are two of my passions. I'm changing the way people think about computing.
Aug
25
Syntax Brain Twister
I gave this brain twister at the Scheme Workshop 2010, but I think it's a neat
thing so
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Aug
06
Conferences and Microsoft Word
Why do some conferences insist on things like Word documents for their single,
only, primary submission format? It boggles the
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Aug
03
Libarchive
If you have ever wanted to process zip files or isos, you've probably seen
programs like the libiso9660
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Jul
31
Handling errno in foreign code
If you are writing and interfacing with foreign libraries in Chez Scheme, it's
often rather important that you
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Jul
30
Are computer scientists anti-social?
It seems like people still have a sort of misconception about Computer Science
as a lone wolf art. Some people
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Jul
30
Computer Science Curricula
Those of you who know me and also know that I am a Computer Scientist often ask
me, "What
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Jul
18
Bytevectors and Foreign Code
Sometimes when working with bytevectors in Chez Scheme, you want to treat that
bytevector as a foreign allocated block of
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Jul
04
Motif and Slackware 13.1
Unfortunately, there is a bug in X Windows that ships with Slackware64 13.1
which can cause programs which expect
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Jun
15
Reviewing the new Slackware64 13.1
So, after a brief sojourn in the land of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, I'm
back with Slackware64,
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